Kettering Bus Route X10: Kettering to Northampton — Stops, Timetable & Fares (2026)

🚌 Kettering Bus Route X10 — Kettering ↔ Northampton

🚌 Route X10: Kettering ↔ Northampton | 🏢 Stagecoach Midlands | ⏱️ About hourly | 💳 £3 fare cap · £2 from Jan 2027 | 📅 Monday to Friday

The X10 is a bus service run by Stagecoach Midlands in the Kettering area. This page gives the stops in order, an honest summary of the timetable (first and last buses and how often they run, by day), fares and the questions riders ask most.

📋 Route X10 Essential Information

  • Route: X10 — Kettering ↔ Northampton
  • Operator: Stagecoach Midlands
  • Days: Monday to Friday
  • First / last (weekday): 05:10 – 19:32 from Kettering
  • Frequency: about hourly (less frequent early morning and evening)
  • Journey time: around 67 minutes end to end
  • Stops: 67 stops in the main direction (see list below)
  • Fare: single fares capped at £3 (see Fares & Payment)

🗺️ Route X10 Stops

🚏 Stops Towards Kettering — in order

  1. Northampton Bus Interchange (Bay 10)
  2. Northampton Abington Square (Stop A2)
  3. Kingsley Park, adj Grove Road
  4. Kingsley Park, adj Clare Street
  5. Kingsley Park, o/s Racecourse Pavillion
  6. Kingsley Park White Elephant PH (NE-bound)
  7. Kingsley Park, opp St Matthews Church
  8. Kingsley Park, opp 2 Broadway
  9. Kingsley Park Broadway (o/s 45)
  10. Abington, opp Cedar Road School
  11. Abington, opp Wheatfield Road
  12. Abington Lindsay Avenue (E-bound)
  13. Headlands, opp Beverley Crescent
  14. Headlands, adj Sandiland Road
  15. Headlands, adj Upland Road
  16. Headlands, o/s United Reform Church
  17. Headlands, o/s Baptist Chapel
  18. The Headlands (adj)
  19. Boothville, adj St Gregory's Primary School
  20. Boothville, adj Keswick Drive
  21. Boothville Lumbertubs PH (near)
  22. Moulton Leys, opp Manning Road
  23. Moulton Park, adj Clayfield Close
  24. Moulton Park, opp Pondwood Close
  25. Moulton Park Red House Road (W-bound)
  26. Moulton Park, opp Science Park
  27. Moulton Park, opp Regal Close
  28. Moulton Park, opp Nationwide
  29. Moulton Park, o/s Welton House
  30. Moulton Park, opp Mansion Close
  31. Moulton Park, opp Esselte
  32. Moulton Park, adj Pondwood Close
  33. Moulton Park, opp Clayfield Close
  34. Moulton Leys, opp Underbank Road
  35. Moulton Leys, opp Playing Fields
  36. Moulton Leys, o/s Manning Court
  37. Moulton, adj Ryland Road
  38. Moulton Fuller Road (near)
  39. Moulton Surgery (near)
  40. Moulton, opp Parade Bank
  41. Moulton, o/s 2 Chater Street
  42. Moulton Overstone Road (o/s 27)
  43. Moulton, opp Wantage Close
  44. Overstone, opp Drury Way
  45. Overstone, opp Lilac Way
  46. Overstone, o/s Post Office
  47. Sywell, before Pumping Station
  48. Sywell Primary School (before)
  49. Sywell, before The Horseshoe PH
  50. Broughton, before Donaldson Avenue
  51. Broughton, before Red Lion PH
  52. Broughton, before Recreation Ground
  53. Little Cransley, after Gate Lane
  54. Little Cransley, after Grange Road
  55. Kettering, opp Bignal Court
  56. Kettering, adj Mead Road
  57. Kettering, opp Boardman Road
  58. Kettering, opp Bowling Green
  59. Kettering, before Gipsy Lane
  60. Kettering, before Gipsy Lane
  61. Kettering, opp Hospital
  62. (Kettering) Railway View (before)
  63. Kettering Newland Centre (Stop 8)
  64. Kettering, after School Lane
  65. Kettering Bus Interchange (Stop 11)

12 weekday departures from Northampton: first 07:15, last 20:40.

🚏 Stops Towards Northampton — in order

  1. Kettering Bus Interchange (Stop 11)
  2. Kettering Newland Centre (Stop 5)
  3. Kettering, before Railway View
  4. Kettering, before Hospital
  5. Kettering, before Gipsy Lane
  6. Kettering, after Gipsy Lane
  7. Kettering, o/s Bowling Green
  8. Kettering, adj Boardman Road
  9. Kettering, opp Mead Road
  10. Kettering, adj Bignal Court
  11. Little Cransley, before Grange Road
  12. Little Cransley, before Gate Lane
  13. Broughton, after Recreation Ground
  14. Broughton, before Red Lion PH
  15. Broughton, after Rathmine Court
  16. Broughton, after Donaldson Avenue
  17. Overstone, opp Lilac Way
  18. Talavera Way Roundabout (S-bound)
  19. Boothville Booth Rise (o/s 58)
  20. Boothville, adj Lumbertubs Lane
  21. Sywell, before The Horseshoe PH
  22. Sywell Primary School (after)
  23. Sywell Pumping Station (after)
  24. Overstone, opp Post Office
  25. Overstone, opp Drury Way
  26. Moulton Overstone Road (opp 77)
  27. Moulton, adj Wantage Close
  28. Moulton Overstone Road (o/s 14)
  29. Moulton, opp Co-op Store
  30. Moulton, o/s Surgery
  31. Moulton, opp Fuller Road
  32. Moulton, opp Ryland Road
  33. Moulton Leys, opp Manning Court
  34. Moulton Leys, adj Playing Fields
  35. Moulton Leys, adj Underbank Road
  36. Moulton Leys, opp Manning Road
  37. Moulton Park, adj Clayfield Close
  38. Moulton Park, opp Pondwood Close
  39. Moulton Park Red House Road (W-bound)
  40. Moulton Park, opp Science Park
  41. Moulton Park, opp Regal Close
  42. Moulton Park, opp Nationwide
  43. Moulton Park, o/s Welton House
  44. Moulton Park, opp Mansion Close
  45. Moulton Park, opp Esselte
  46. Moulton Park, opp Clayfield Close
  47. Moulton Leys, adj Manning Road
  48. Boothville, o/s Lumbertubs PH
  49. Boothville, opp St Gregory's Primary School
  50. Headlands, opp Baptist Chapel
  51. Headlands, opp United Reform Church
  52. Headlands, opp Upland Road
  53. Headlands, opp Sandiland Road
  54. Headlands, adj Beverley Crescent
  55. Abington Lindsay Avenue (W-bound)
  56. Abington, adj Wheatfield Road
  57. Abington, o/s Cedar Road School
  58. Kingsley Park Broadway (o/s 54)
  59. Kingsley Park, o/s 2 Broadway
  60. Kingsley Park, o/s St Matthews Church
  61. Kingsley Park White Elephant PH (SW-bound)
  62. Kingsley Park Racecourse Pavillion (near)
  63. Kingsley Park, opp Clare Street
  64. Kingsley Park, opp Grove Road
  65. Northampton Abington Square (Stop A3)
  66. Northampton Lower Mounts (Stop A5)
  67. Northampton Bus Interchange (Bay 10)

13 weekday departures from Kettering: first 05:10, last 19:32.

🎫 Fares & Payment

  • Fare cap: single fares on this service are capped at £3 under the England national fare cap — the cap falls to £2 from 1 January 2027. See BusUpdate’s fare cap guide.
  • Paying: most operators in this area accept contactless bank cards and mobile payment as well as cash; smaller community operators may differ — check with Stagecoach Midlands for this route.
  • Day tickets: if you make several journeys, ask the driver about Stagecoach Midlands day tickets, which can beat paying capped singles.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

What time is the first X10 bus from Kettering?
On weekdays the first X10 leaves Kettering at 05:10.

What time is the last X10 bus?
On weekdays the last X10 from Kettering is at 19:32 (the last bus from Northampton is at 19:32).

How often does the X10 run?
About hourly on weekdays; the service runs monday to friday.

How much is the fare on the X10?
Single fares are capped at £3 under the England fare cap (£2 from 1 January 2027).

Timetable & stop data: bustimes.org (open data — Bus Open Data Service / Traveline / NaPTAN), extracted and verified October 2026. Independently compiled by the BusUpdate editorial team; confirm time-sensitive details with Stagecoach Midlands before travelling. See also: buses in Kettering on BusUpdate.

🌐 Route X10 in the Kettering network

This page is part of BusUpdate’s Ring 1 coverage of the Peterborough-centred network — every town service in Kettering and its neighbours, built service by service from the open timetable data (BODS/TNDS via bustimes) rather than from operator summaries. The parsed timetable behind this page records 67 stops on the main direction, runs Monday to Friday, a typical end-to-end journey of about 67 minutes. The operator is Stagecoach Midlands, whose BusUpdate operator page carries its full service list.

🎫 The fare cap — what you actually pay

Single fares on this service sit under the national cap for England (outside London): £3 per single journey now, falling to £2 from 1 January 2027, with the £3 cap funded to March 2027. The cap covers the vast majority of single tickets bought on the bus; day and season tickets price separately and can beat the cap on multi-ride days. The full story — funding, dates and what is excluded — is in the fare-cap guide.

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Appendix compiled October 2026 from this page’s parsed-timetable build data — see our data page for how the Ring 1 dataset is sourced and checked.

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